Recipes

Sesame Brussel Sprouts

Sweet sesame soy roasted brussel sprouts. Quick and easy side of roasted tahini and sweet soy glazed brussel sprouts. This recipe is probably one of the easiest I’ve posted. The hardest part would be trimming the root tip and cutting the sprouts in half. Not really hard, but it does take a few minutes. Once…

Pecan Crusted Chicken

Pecan-crusted apple cider brined chicken breast with brussel sprout apple slaw. Juicy panko pecan-crusted chicken served with a sweet-savory apple grain mustard slaw. You can build on the fall flavors of this dish by adding a side of mashed sweet potatoes made simply with cream and butter. This chicken not only gets flavor from the…

Curry Chicken Katsu

Crispy panko-crusted, curry marinated chicken, coconut rice, and pickled mango. Curry spiced chicken thighs, fried to crispy perfection, served with fluffy coconut rice, sweet-salty pickled mango, cucumber, and fresh cilantro. The pickled mango is a tasty addition to this curry katsu. I prefer to use under-ripened mango to make the pickles. They are easier to…

Hawaiian Summer

Pineapple rum, fresh mango puree, coconut water, li hing mui, and a splash of coconut milk. Summer calls for fruity cocktails utilizing the season’s best fruit and some locally crafted spirits. Since it’s mango season, I thought a fun summer cocktail would be the perfect use for the season’s abundance. I used fresh mangos to…

Seared Ahi Poke Bowl

Seared sea salt and soy ahi tuna poke over rice with pickled cabbage, gochujang mayo, and fried shallots. This poke bowl recipe contains two of my all-time favorite poke bowl toppings, pickled cabbage, and crispy fried shallots. The cabbage is quick-pickled by mixing it with sugar and salt to draw out any liquid and then…

Chorizo Arancini with Tomato Fondue

Panko-crusted smoky Spanish chorizo risotto balls with tomato concasse and manchego. Crispy panko on the outside, creamy chorizo risotto inside, served with a light tomato sauce, and a little extra manchego cheese. Making the tomato fondue is a bit of a process. It involves coring, scoring, blanching, shocking, peeling, deseeding, dicing, pureeing, and finally cooking…

Strawberry Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

Buttery strawberry shortbread cookies filled with a strawberry Italian meringue cream-cheese buttercream. Freeze-dried strawberries make these dainty little cookies pop with strawberry flavor. Why use freeze-dried strawberries? For a couple of reasons. One, freeze-drying removes moisture from the berries, which would compromise the structure of recipes like shortbread and buttercream. Two, freeze-drying concentrates the fruit’s…

Tuna Meatball Pita

Ahi tuna meatballs, marinated vegetable relish, cumin yogurt, and romaine wrapped in a soft fluffy pita. Lemon and oregano spiced tuna meatball pita with fresh and pickled vegetable relish and a creamy yogurt sauce. To make this dish, you need to start with the freshest tuna you can find. Pick fish with bright red flesh…

Korean Glazed Swordfish

Gochujang glazed swordfish fillets with kimchi fried rice. Sweet-spicy ginger, gochujang glazed swordfish with kimchi-cabbage and vegetable fried rice. I don’t usually make a lot of spicy dishes, but my love for kimchi took over on this one. The fish and the rice in this dish both have spice. Some of which get balanced out…

Sausage and Kale Stuffed Pasta

Chicken sausage, kale, and ricotta stuffed jumbo shells, baked in a sweet potato cream sauce. Italian chicken sausage mixed with wilted kale, ricotta, and pecorino stuffed in large pasta shells, tucked into a creamy sweet potato sauce and baked. The title of this recipe is stuffed pasta instead of stuffed shells because any filled pasta…

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